8ctave HD is a public channel in the 'news and weather' category, and we also have a private channel we use for in-house testing. In mid-February our public side was taken down by engineering to fix a bug affecting viewers using older displays.

To satiate subscribers, we cloned 8ctave to our beta channel and instructed viewers to install privately while our patch awaited public approval in Roku-Queue. By doing this, we inadvertently gave out thousands of 'backstage passes' to our tinkertoy, and once 8ctave HD returned to public prominence our private channel wasn't so private anymore.

For the curious, H*E*R*O* is our second entry into the Connected TV marketplace, a Military Grade Media Network with amazing POV wartime footage and a uniquely formatted channel guide that feels more like HALO than HULU. Pre-previews are positive, and like many others we're holding out for our H*E*R*O* to deploy in the public store soon.

I do have 1 content request. About a year ago, there was a Podcast on the stock Apple TV that had Newsy.com clips in their chronological order. No Catagories, just the order they were published. That Podcast is no more and the Newsy Roku Channel only has reports that are categorized. Anyway you could put something on 8ctave like the old Podcast for Newsy?

ok i like to see this added to channel http://www.desplaines.org/index.aspx?NID=644 if look on left you will see tab called City Council Meetings & Special Event Videos and http://bit.ly/ZR2RrK is there old video if,an look into adding this to channel i love it i watch my roku but want to watch thsi but cant since not on channel thanks